This is a camera website but it’s really about cameras and the people I have met with my amateur photography. Today I found out that a nice man I met in August 2011 has died. His name was Oleg Pichowkin: “Oly”. In our short moments together we discussed cameras and a mutual hope for better…
Announcing my new Website named Shoshin Guitarist As I type this I am in my basement office surrounded by the things I have enjoyed in my lifetime: cameras, Lincoln books, fishing equipment, and guitars. I am retired and I have no shortage of hobbies and pastimes for my new retired life. Since many of you…
We sometimes read about film camera bloggers “thinning the herd”. Accidentally, I “drowned” my herd. The Chicago heavy rains of July 3, 2023 solved that problem for me. Perhaps 30 of my cameras (and lenses) drowned in the flood. Soggy cameras don’t work well. What was lost? Easily 20 point and shoot cameras from garage…
Probably not. But maybe you’ll get lucky and purchase a Russian camera that was made on a “good day” in Russia by a craftsmen who took pride in their work instead of a worker simply making his daily camera quota. Soviet Union camera quality can be scary and irregular. When I was studying Russian, our…
Although I write about my cameras on this blog I also have a growing Flickr account. In about 3 years of collecting and using film cameras I have shot about 1500 – 2000 photos. My best film photos, all 175 of them, are now arranged on Flickr at Richard’s Favorites. This is what my Flickr…
Mt. Pulaski – Canon QL 17 Review This Mt. Pulaski Canon QL 17 GIII has had its own journey. I believe it was purchased in the Orient by a U.S. serviceman during the Viet Nam War in the early 1970’s and it returned to its owner’s home in Mt. Pulaski, IL. I know for sure…
This is a terrific half-frame camera. I was shocked when almost all of my photos came out so nicely. If you have a chance to pick up a Kyocera Samurai Z2, do it. (Click on any small photo in this blog post to make it larger.) Kyocera Samurai Z2 Good Features I almost forgot. This…
Yesterday, September 14, 2013, in Des Plaines, IL, I began my Walgreens boycott. Will Walgreens New Film Development Policy Kill U.S. Photography? I strolled into the Des Plaines, IL Walgreens on Northwest Highway hoping to get a 35mm roll of film developed in an hour. I really wanted to see how much Walgreens had jacked…
A Camera Walk with Charlie Two months ago at church camp I talked about photography with some kids at our annual church camp. Last week a friend from church asked if I could show her 10 year old daughter how to take photos. Definitely. Student Camera: Ricoh KR-5 For practice I loaded some Fuji ASA…
Once a year Park Ridge, IL has a city-wide garage sale of perhaps 100 homes (plus unlisted sales). 20 Garage Sales – 3 Cameras In visiting about 20 garage sales I found just 3 cameras: Dirty 90’s Minolta – The owner went inside and brought a mostly plastic Minolta from the late 80’s or early…